From: | Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)cvc(dot)net> |
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To: | nolan(at)celery(dot)tssi(dot)com |
Cc: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, "Advocacy PostgreSQL" <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] interesting PHP/MySQL thread |
Date: | 2003-06-23 16:07:38 |
Message-ID: | 3EF725CA.2060508@cvc.net |
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Looks like there's some parts of that that would make a good todo.
nolan(at)celery(dot)tssi(dot)com wrote:
>>>Personally, if I want case insensitivity, I'll WRITE IT INTO THE CODE,
>>>but I can see how some people might think that 'NOLAN', 'Nolan' and
>>>'nolan' should be considered as the same data.
>>
>>Oh, you mean like "SELECT * FROM table WHERE field ~* 'nolan';"?
>
>
> No, I mean as in "SELECT * FROM table WHERE field = 'nolan';"
>
> That will match values with any combination of upper and lower case
> letters that fold to 'nolan': 'Nolan', 'NOLAN', etc.
>
> Also, unlike PostgreSQL (at least in 7.3), if you define an index on
> the column, mysql appears to use it for LIKE queries.
>
> "SELECT * FROM table WHERE field LIKE 'nolan%';"
>
> is very fast in mysql but not in 7.3, and even non-anchored LIKE searches
> in mysql appear to be using the index.
>
> "SELECT * FROM table WHERE field LIKE '%nolan%';"
>
> executes considerably faster with an index on field than without one.
> --
> Mike Nolan
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